Wat er-motor



(No Model.)

W. E. SEELYB Y WATER MOTOR. No. 483,394. Patented Sept. 27, 1892'.

u .Hf f4/Gg, .si

\'II J6! a.; 27 gi-i z aids' 4 4f M Lf +49 Y/j l L g /)ST J f 2 /19 v'45 404/ 5'? l' 4J 45g/ 73 40 3 z /13 d; 47

lum/mn:

47m/3. ATmH/VEYS.

TH: News Varens co., moro-mno., wnsxmocu. u. c,

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

1WILLIAM E. SEELYE, OF BRAINERD, MINNESOTA.

WATER-MOTO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 483,394, datedSeptember 27, 1892.

Application filed January 27, 1892. Serial No. 419,438. (No model.)

To all whom it 71mg/ concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. SEELYE, of Brainerd, in the county ofCrow Wing and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and ImprovedWater-Motor, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

My invention relates to improvements in watermotors; and the object ofmy invention is to produce a simple and efficient motor in which thewater-wheel buckets are near the periphery of the wheel, so as to getthe benefit of the greatest possible amount of leverage, which isprovided with means of delivering the Water in solid columns to thewheel-buckets, and which is provided with a peculiar form of gate, whichenables the motor to be very easily and nicely controlled, this latterfeature being one of the important features of the invention.

To this end my invention consists in certain features of constructionand combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter described andclaimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a motor embodying my invention. Fig. 2is a vertical cross-section ofthe saine on the line 2 2 in Fig. 4. Fig.3 is a horizontal section through the water-wheel and watr-chest on theline 3 3 in Fig.2 Fig/l is a sectional plan on the line 4 4 in Fig. 2.Fig. 5 is a broken enlarged sectional view on the line 5 5in Fig. Il,and Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail sectional view of a modified means ofvertically` adjusting the water-wheel and its shaft and also of asupport for the shaft.

The water-wheel 10 has an outer or peripheral rim, which is divided intoa plurality of curved buckets 11, extending tangentially across the rim,the buckets being open at their outer and inner ends, but having theirlarger openings inward, from which direction the water enters them, andas the discharge is through the outer or smaller ends it will be seenthat the driving force of the water will be applied at a point very nearthe circumference of the wheel. The wheel has on the under side a seriesof radial spokes 12, the outer ends of which support the bucket-rim andthe inner ends of which merge in a hub 13, which is fixed to the mainvertical` shaft. 11.1E of the wheel, so that the wheel and shaft willturn together. The lower end of the shaft la is provided with a socket,which turns on the rounded upper end of a screw-bolt 16, which is heldto turn in the threaded hub 17, formed at the junction of the severalbent arms 18, which arms are bent upwardly and terminate at their outerends in a collar 19, which is secured by means of screws 18a to theunder side of a base-plate 20, and this is secured by means of screws2OfL or their equivalent to a support 21, which may be the bottoni of aflume, as hereinafter described.

The screw-bolt 16 is provided with a suitable lock-nut, and byadjust-ing the bolt the height of the shaft and water-wheel may beregulated, and the bolt also forms an easy bearing for the wheel.Instead of the bolt, however, an oval bearing l5 maybe provided for theshaft, which bearing is held in a block 16, mounted ina recess 17'a ofthe hub 17, and the block is adjusted by the set-screws 17h, whichextend upward from the under side of the hub. This construction is shownclearly in Fig. 6.

The spokes 12 of the water-wheel are flat on their upper surfaces, whichfit close to a Water-chest 22, which fits snugly Within the bucket-rimof the water-wheel 10 and which is held in place by screws 22, extendingdownward through the base-plate 20 and into the upper portion of thewater-chest. The water-chest is provided with a series ofcircumferential and tangential ports 23, which are adapted to registerwith the inner openings of the buckets 1l and the inclination of whichis opposite to the inclination of the buckets, so that the water whichissues from the ports will strike forcibly against the eoncaved walls ofthe buckets, and thus turn the water-wheel with great power. The chest22 has also a hollow central shaft 24, through which the main shaft laextends and to the upper end of which a box is secured, which forms anabutment for the Water-pipe elbow, as hereinafter described.

A cylindrical gate 25 is adapted to enter the middle portion of thechest 22, so that its outer surface will fit against the innerwall ofthe rim of the chest, and the upperportion of IOO this gate is held toslide in a cylinder 26, formed centrally on the upper portion of thebase-plate 20, the cylinder 26 being open at top and bottom, s o thatthe gate 25 may have a free vertical movement. The lower edge of thegate is adapted to fit snugly upon the bottorn of the chest, so thatwhen the gate is in its lowest position it Will shut the Water entirelyoff from the chest-ports 23, and consequently from the water-wheel.

At intervals in the cylinder 26 are formed diagonal slots 27, andextending through these slots are set-screws 28, the inner ends of whichare secured to the gate 25, and the set-screws carry rollers or washers29, adapted to move longitudinally in the slots 27, so as to reducefriction. These setscrews 28 also extend through a collar 30, which isheld to slide on the outer portion of the cylinder 26, and on thiscollar is a segmental gear 3l, which meshes with a horizontally-turningpinion 32 on the shaft 33,which shaft has a hand-wheel 34 at the top toenable it to be turned, and it is mounted upon a suitable support 35,secured to the base-plate 20. By turning the shaft 34 the segmental gear3l may be turned either to the right or left, so as to cause the collar30 to move the set-screws 2S and rollers or Washers 29 either up or downin the slots 27, and consequently the set-screws, which are also securedto the gate 25, will carry the gate with them, and by means of thehandwheel 34 it will thus be seen that the gate may be either raised 0rlowered. By this arrangement the gate may be adjusted so that just thedesired quantity of water will How to the buckets of the water-wheel.

An elbow 36 is screwed to the upper end of the cylinder 2G, and thiselbow is adapted to connect with a water-pipe which supplies the motorwith Water, and the shaft 24:, which eX- tends upward through the elbow,has a box 37 at its upper end,in which the shaft 14 turns, and this boxis held to the shaft 24 by the set-screw 3S. The elbow 36 forms no partof the motor, and when the motoris used the base-plate 2O may be securedin the bottom of the flume and the water allowed to iiew directlydownward through the gate .and out through the Water-wheel buckets, asindicated by the arrows in Fig. 2.

Having thus fully described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters 4 Patent- 1. Theherein-described water-motor, comprising the annular plate 20, arms 18thereunder having an adjustable center, an outer slotted cylindricalcasing 26 upon the upper side of the slotted plate, an elbovvr securedto the upper end of said casing, a main shaft eX- tending down throughsaid elbow and stepped on said center, a water-wheel mounted on thelower end of the shaft and provided with an annular series of bucketsopen at their inner and outer ends, the water-chest 22, secured to thelower side of the plate 20 within the series of buckets and havingY anannular series of ports registering with said buckets, thevertically-sliding open-ended cylindrical gate closing the inner ends-ofsaid ports and resting at its lower edge on the upper face of the'Water-chest, and operating mechanism connected with the gate throughthe slotted cas ing, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the base-plate having a central opeirendedcylinder thereon with diagonal slots in the wall thereof, of thehorizontally-rotating Water-Wheel mounted beneath the base-plate, thewater-chest held centrally within the Water-Wheel and having an open topand side ports opening into the Water-wheel buckets, the sliding gateheld within the base-plate cylinder and adapted to enter thewater-chest, the collar embracing the base-plate cylinder, screwsextending through the cylinder-slots and connecting the collar and gate,and a gear mechanism for moving the collar, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the open-top waterchest having side ports, thebase-plate held above the water-chest and provided with a diagonalslotted open-top cylinder, the gate held to slide in said cylinder andin the waterchest, the collar embracing the base-plate cylinder andhaving a gear thereon, screws or their equivalents extending through thecylinder-slots and connecting the collar and gate, and a shaft andpinion for turning the collar, substantially as described.

WILLIAM E. SEELYE.

Witnesses:

MILTON MCFADDEN, JOHN N. NEVERS.

